Grateful Bread

The joys of letting a lump of dough rise with fresh yeast
in it is amazing... If it weren't for the fact that bread is
really bad for me I'd make a loaf a day! It's easy, it's
fun (still playing with mud pies... and at my age!) and
when you're done, you get out the honey and butter and
GO TO TOWN!

Right now the dough is on it's second rise. When it finishes
rising then I'll knock it down and put it into the loaf pans.

After it rises in the pans one more time, it's into the oven
for 40 minutes and then cooling on the rack and then
I get to indulge.

Not a great thing to do every day, but it's really tasty.

I'm gonna have two extra loaves left over... one's for
the crazy lady who lives upstairs (weirdos need love too)
and the other goes to my brother (just to protect myself
from myself). It would be really great if I could get
really good at baking and make it into a skill. I love the
smell...

Sammy Redux

Oh the joys of Vitamin C...

I have been sick. Really sick. And Vitamin C saved me.

Here's the situation. I'm overweight, with bad heart rhythm
and a problem with recurring Urinary Tract Infections. Don't
know why the infections keep coming back but they do.

The main problem with the infections is that the antibiotics
they give me cause kidney stones to form. So I was left with
the choice of fighting the infection off by myself or dipping
back into modern medicine's trick bag for more anti-biotics
and more kidney stones or to try to fight off the infection
without the anti-biotics. I chose the latter.

I figured, "People fought off infections long before anti-biotics,
I can do this now." And so I didn't go to the doctor, I didn't
tell him I was sick and I prayed to let my natural resistence
win the battle. But that didn't happen. I got worse.

The pain in my groin had increased, the urine was cloudy
and had a bad smell and then my kidney started to hurt.
It was a tender pain which registered as back ache whenever
I bent over or tried to lie down or leaned back in a chair. It
was getting worse and I was getting worried. That is when
I remembered the big three pound jar of Vitamin C powder
I had purchased once in an attempt to try and "get healthy".

I started taking large doses of Vitamin C because I had
read many anecdotes of people healed from dire diseases
and problems with saturation doses of Ascorbic Acid. I
Started with twenty-five grams a day. I then moved, in
about three days, to thirty grams a day. First the smell
went away from me, then the urine cleared up, then slowly
over a period of two weeks the pain in the kidney went
away.

The infection has been eliminated. The interesting part
of the whole thing is the correllary health issues which
are being healed by the Vitamin C which have prompted
me to continue to take it in a lower, but still substantial,
maintanance dose.

My skin is better. A lesion I had and the incipient allopecia
I had been developing are clearing up. I've lost weight
as I've dropped toxins from my system and seem to have
less interest in eating than I did before. I lay all of these
changes down to the dose of Ascorbic Acid I'm taking.

I really am a convert. I mix the powder with spring water
and sip it all through the day to keep the dose regular.
I feel much better. I recommend that you try it. It's
made a huge difference in my life.